Tag: album release

If music hadn’t found him and permitted him self-expression, Pat Dam Smyth would have excelled as a performance poet, the curious fervency of his voice long nourished by the proselytising city in which he made his musical bones. The Northern…

‘If you have to kick against the pricks, must you mention them by name?’ asked John Osborne once upon a time. The answer, in this case, is No. There is not enough time to kick out against a confederacy of…

If we’re to accept that we live in transitional times and that political shifts have, for a long while, starved the arts of much-needed funding, then this eponymously-named debut musical statement from Cellar Doors arrives just in time. Having performed…

This debut album, ‘The Eleventh Hour’, is presciently named as 29 March approaches. Sooner rather than later, things are going to change in the UK and in what manner we can’t discern, but here comes a trio of musicians ready…

“Soul is at the heart of what we’re doing, but we’re going after an aggressive soul,” says Chris Hague over a coffee and under the big screen in Soho’s Bar Italia. “I get the buzz from songwriting. We’re sticklers for…

The concept album has returned with Waiting Rooms, the second and long-awaited album by Samantha Whates, a Scottish singer-songwriter in whose smiling, gimlet eyes smoulders something rare. The album comes at a curious time in the life of the country…

Rating: Lou Rhodes‘ amused, gimlet eyes are the giveaway. She’s on to something, they impute, lifting up and away from the promotional photography, fixing you with a keenness to tell that she is no ordinary chanteuse in pursuit of her fifteen…

Rating: It’s been a while since I’ve been this excited about an album, and after listening to Pond‘s new record, Man It Feels like Space Again, a grand total of five times today, I’m officially addicted. The Australian psych-pop band…

Foo Fighters have revealed details about their upcoming eighth studio album, which is due to be released this autumn via Roswell/RCA Records. The yet-untitled album will be the follow-up to 2011’s ‘Wasting Light’, and will be released simoultaneously with the…

Jack White is ready to release a brand spanking new album, titled ‘Lazaretto’. The news come from his official social network pages. The album is going to be released on June 9 via Third Man Records, the artist’s own label…